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A Revolution in Spa and Wellness Holidays.

The multi award winning Chiva Som, Hua Hin Thailand has for ages been the last word in Health, Wellness and luxury Spa Holidays and Retreats.

In the interests of truly holistic treatment, Chiva Som have invited us as guest consultants for two periods; 9th-20th November 09 and 6th-22nd February to March 6th 2010.

For the first time, our evidence based interventions based on much researched Motivational Psychology will be avaible alongside, Chiva Som  Spa and Wellness Therapy, Holistic Health Therapy, Physiotherapy, and Fitness Therapy.

Why?   Because the body, mind, emotions and psyche are inextricably linked and by working together we can offer you even more tools with which to change your life.  We believe this unique approach will change the face of Spa and Wellness Holidays and Mind and Body Health Retreats in the future.

Life Change Therapy, as developed and run, by the Life Change People over the past 20 years, first in the U.K. and then in Chiang Mai, Thailand, will be offered for the first time as part of the unique multi-disciplinary services available in the exquisite surroundings of Chiva Som, Hua Hin, Thailand, during the times above.

Word of mouth has already resulted in many enquiries and much interest. Check out the rest of our website for counselling retreat holidays, womens holidays and solo travel special offers. Be one of the first to benefit  from this unique combination of Life Change Therapy and holistic health, wellness and spa treatment.

Detox Health Retreat Holiday.

Early Morning at our Health Retreat Holiday.

De-stress your body, clear your mind and enhance your health.

Combine our Change Therapy course with an 8 day Health Retreat Holiday at the Rachamankha boutique hotel.

The Chefs have created a mouth watering raw food menu which will amaze your taste buds, de-stress and detox your body, clear your mind, enhance your health and energise you.
This 3 course dinner menu has been prepared specially and is exclusive to Life Change People guests. The chefs at The Rachamankha will demonstrate how delightfully and creatively raw food can be presented drawing upon Thai and Asian influences and using the abundance of amazingly fresh local fruits and vegetables. Also included in your holiday will be your Change Therapy course; undivided attention from your Change Therapy practitioner sorting out all your worries and problems. 

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Change Therapy – How to Increase Importance to Change and Confidence in Changing 

Change Therapy session during Counselling Retreat.

The pioneering work originally undertaken by Dr Bill Miller and Dr Steve Rollnick sparked a generation of interest in the understanding of exactly how and why we change. It spawned a number of approaches, most notably Motivational Enhancement Therapy, Change Therapyand Motivational Interviewing. Pivotal to these is the idea that change, especially motivation to change, is connected to how important change is, coupled with how confident we are in changing. This idea harks back to Ronald Rogers Health Beliefs theories about why we make health behaviour change.

Contrary to popular belief our confidence and importance are far more malleable than most believe. We can push up our confidence and our importance score fairly easily. There is no definitive list of techniques, what works for one may not work for another. Motivational Interviewing outline a handful of useful techniques but recognize there are as many strategies as problems themselves. During Change Therapy people are often encouraged to develop their own strategies that work for them.

Here are some ideas that might help:

Change Therapy : Increasing Importance to Change.

Think about your goals in life. What do you want to achieve and how would you like to be remembered. Imagine you are reflecting back over your life with a friend. What goals would you like to have achieved.

Change Therapy with Dan."It was like taking a hoover to the dust in my brain"

What would be the worst things that would happen if you did not change. What would be the absolute worst, nightmare scenarios. What are the things that would definitely happen that would not be good and the things that might happen that would be a disaster.

What would be the best things about changing? What would you expect to be better or different. How might other people be affected if you changed. Who would notice and what might they say about you.

What are your values in life? What do you hold most dear and how would your proposed changes affect these things. Think about your values carefully as they are not always immediately obvious.

Change Therapy – Increasing Confidence in Changing. 

List and describe your strengths as a person. What are you good at, what did you find interesting at school, were you good at sports, art, engineering, needlework….Would you say you are a stubborn person, do you give up on things, are you flexible. Do you have an ability to laugh at yourself…. The more you think the more you’ll come up with.

What achievements can you list. There are probably more than you think, when did you pass your driving test, do you have school awards, did you play local sports, have you ever got through an interview….. Just when you think you might have run out of things, give yourself five minutes, do the washing up (or something else) and you’ll probably think of one more.

If you didn’t pick a score of zero, why did you choose the number you did? Foe example, what made you say “3″ rather

Change Therapy. Last night of Thailand Retreat Holiday.

than “0″.

If you did decide to change what support would you have from people around you. Who would want to see you do well, and what might they do to encourage you?

Change Therapy – Conclusion.

These are really just a few ideas that maybe helpful to you if engaged in Change Therapy. If you need more ideas do feel free to contact us, we will help you.

If you are interested in our work have a look at our holiday and retreat programmes. Change Holidays

Remember, keep on going. Not getting it right first time will make you more successful the next.

Adventure Holiday in Thailand. 

Challenge your body and strengthen your mind    A unique 8 day holiday adventure combining exhilarating action with our Change Therapy coaching course ….. £732 (41,750 Thai Baht or $1192USD).

For the first time ever a holiday experience that aims to combine the best of Asia’s unique action and adventure experiences with top class life-coaching. Time will be divided between a carefully planned series of unusual and exhilarating challenging physical activities, including;

• Flying across the jungle canopy on zip wires and sky bridges. 
• White water rafting.
• ATV (All Terrain Vehicle) off road quad bike jungle adventure.
• Elephant trekking through the mountains.
• Piloting micro light aircraft over mountains and jungle.

Adventure Holiday:Ultimate Travel Therapy!

And a comprehensive Change Therapy course, including

• Full clinical personality profiling and analysis
• Overcoming problems
• Building motivation
• Increasing confidence and self belief
• Comprehensive Forward Planning
• 12 weeks follow up online life coaching support package

It will be a week you’ll never forget and may well change your life.

Prices are inclusive of The Change Therapy Course (inc 12 weeks follow up support), private airport transfers, all activities and 7 nights accommodation, in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Change your life on your Adventure Holiday in Thailand.

You’ll Never Look Back With Our Mind, Body and Health Retreat Holiday.

This is a complete retreat holiday, the mountainside tranquility of Chiang Mai, Thailand.It combines everything you need to really sort out your mind and strengthen your body.

This individual retreat holiday has been carefully designed for people who need to get away from the daily grind and address emotional problems or difficult life situations with our unique Life Change Therapy Programmme (see our online Brochure), as well as giving your body some well earned attention.

Our holiday includes everything you need to set your mind and body off in a fresh direction, without having to worry about a thing. Every holiday retreat with us includes an important 12 week online counselling package after you return home, ensuring the changes that you decide to make with us stay changed.

Our Mind, Body and Health Retreat Holiday

• Private airport transfers.
• 7 Nights accommodation in one of our partner boutique hotels.
• Specially prepared Thai food created with health in mind, fully inclusive, breakfast, lunch and dinner.
• The Life Change Therapy Programme, including Comprehensive Personality Profiling.
• Daily private Yoga classes, from beginner to advanced.
• De-Stress Spa massage: 2 complete treatments.
• 12 weeks online counselling support after your return home.

Our year round price for the above Mind, Body and Health Retreat start at 5o,500 Thai Baht, (approx £885 or $1442USD).

Mind, Body and Health Raw Food Detox Retreat and Life Change Therapy at the five star Rachamankha Hotel:64,200 Thai Baht.

Our year round price for our Counselling Retreat Holiday is 29,900 Thai Baht , (aprrox £524 or $854USD).

Imagine being transported far away from your everyday problems to a tropical mountainside paradise, with your own private villa with secluded inner courtyard garden and jacuzzi plunge pool, surrounded by beatiful orchids, colourful butterflies and complete tranquility. Imagine not having to worry about a thing and being really well taken care of by your own life change practitioner who guides you through our therapeutic course and helps you resolve emotional issues and whatever difficult situations life has thrown at you. You return home refreshed and energized with a renewed sense of direction, a comprehensive Change Plan and a 12 week dedicated online counselling support package designed to help you get through whatever changes you have decided to make, wherever you are.   

We recognize a growing demand for retreat type holidays that offer both treatment for the mind and body.  The treatment for the body is comprehensively covered, with Thailand offering unsurpassed Spa and Massage wellness treatments. The treatments available to address emotional issues or difficult life situations as part of a wellness holiday has historically been the domain of “alternative” therapies. We provide an evidence based approach based upon recent advances in motivational psychology delivered by experienced and highly qualified senior practitioners. It is not dependant on addressing childhood issues, or in depth psychodynamic work but aims to speed up well documented processes of change. Read what people have said about it on the Guest Book and Press

Health Retreat ….for the Mind and Body.

Early morning on your Health Retreat Holiday.

This is a popular week long Health Retreat holiday that not only provides time and space to relax in a wonderful tranquil enviroment taking advantage of world class health and wellness treatments, but also enables you to resolve difficult feelings and life situations with our unique Change Therapy program.

“ Our Retreat was wonderful, in a quiet location in the mountains, with beautiful gardens, staff were really friendly,the restaurant FANTASTIC with a lovely peaceful veranda. We’ve had a really lovely time ” Kirsten. London. 

Spa and Wellness Health Retreat   

Kirsten and friends on the veranda.

Every Health Retreat includes our unique Change Therapy course, that overcomes difficult feelings and life situations, increases confidence and provides new, realistic ways forward. The course includes;  

• Advanced personality profiling and analysis
• Daily individual Change Therapy sessions
• Change Planning, 
• 12 weeks follow up online coaching program; ensuring your changes stay changed.

Tailor Made Health Retreat Options

Choose what interests you and contact us for the latest prices.

• Specially prepared inclusive healthy Thai Food option.
• Daily private yoga sessions for any level, from introduction to advanced.
• Full range of Spa Treatments, from Traditional Thai Massage to a Full Day Body Treatment .
• Raw food detox menu
• Full range of Ayurvedic health treatments
• Fitness Suite

Our guests often combine time relaxing on a tropical island or shopping and sightseeing in Bangkok. If this interests you let us know and we are happy to advise and organise.

Spa and Wellness Health Retreat Prices

*36,300 Baht in a private Garden Villa at the Baan Deva Retreat Hotel.

A quiet reception on your Health Retreat Holiday

*46,800 Baht in a private Deluxe Villa with private courtyard and pool, Baan Deva Retreat Hotel,Chiang Mai.

*64,200 Baht Raw Food Detox Health Retreat at 5 *Rachamankha

*50,500 Baht at 5*Puripunn “City Oasis” Boutique Hotel

Price on enquiry at Chiva Som, Hua Hin and Kamalaya, Koh Samui, Thailand.

We have put together a special Spa and Wellness Holiday for people who want more from their Spa Holiday.

Our Holiday offers a range of world class spa treatments along with the unique Life Change Therapy Programme that resolves emotional issues and difficult life situations and provides ways forward. So whether you are trying to cope with loss or depression or have hit a mid life crisis or simply feel stuck and unfullfilled and need to sort out your head as well as your body, a Spa and Wellness Holiday with us may just be what you are looking for.

Comlpete Spa and Wellness Holidays including the Life Change Therapy Programme 44,000 Baht ( approx £799,1283USD)

We base our work in 3 special spa and wellness resorts in Thailand; Chiva Som in Hua Hin, and Baan Saen Doi Spa Resort and Baan Deva mountainside retreat both in Chiang Mai. These offer a full range of wonderful spa and wellness treatments and together offer something to suit all budgets. The spa therapists in both Chiva Som and Baan Saen Doi have been trained at the prestigious Chiva Som Academy in Bangkok.

During your stay at either of these resorts you be either indulging in a range of wonderful spa treatments, including De-Stress Spa and Massage Treatment, Reflexology, Hot Stone Massage Therapy and Herbal Compress Treatment  or talking to your own Life Change Practitioner following our unique Life Change Course, sorting out all your problems and difficulties.

To give a flying start to your holiday with us your first session will be spent discussing the results of your Personality Profile Feedback Report with our psychologist. This is a Licensed Questionnaire and is unavailable to the general public, it is unlike questionnaires that most people would be familiar with. It will provide insight to your personality as well as identifying possible barriers to change and will indicate therapeutic ways forward that can be followed up in subsequent sessions.

Towards the end of your spa and wellness holiday we will help you put together your change plan. This details the changes that you will make on your return home and how you want to make use of your follow up online-counselling support from us.  This really does ensure that the changes that you make with us don’t disappear as soon as you return home.

We believe that if you are looking for a holiday in Thailand that is more than just the usual Spa and Wellness experience our holiday cannot be beaten. We know of no other holiday or retreat where you are able to sort out your mind and your body at the same time.

Prices include; 7 nights accomodation, breakfasts, private airport transfers, The Life Change Programme (inclusive of full personality profiling, daily sessions with our life change practitioners, change planning and 12 weeks dedicated follow up online-counselling support) and 4 special spa and wellness treatments.

44,000 at The Baan Deva Montra Retreat Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand.(51,000 in a private Pool Villa)

52,000 at The Baan Saen Doi Spa Resort, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Price on enquiry Chiva Som, Hua Hin, Thailand.  

If you are interested in this holiday do contact us at info@thelifechangepeople.com as our limited number of places are often booked in advance.

Contact us for other holidays, retreats, services and latest prices for Babymoon, Counselling Retreats, Womens Holidays, Solo Travel Holidays, Mind and Body Health Retreat, counselling, life-coaching and therapy services.

Our Counseling Retreat In Thailand

We run tailor made luxury individual counseling retreats in the most stunning locations in Thailand.

Our Counseling Retreat prices start from 39000 Baht (approx $1138 or £709 )which includes;

7 night luxury boutique hotel accommodation in Baan Deva Retreat Hotel

The unique Life Change Therapy Program based upon recent advances in motivational psychology

Clinical Personality Profiling

Private airport transfers

Spa massage and wellness treatment

Orientation and sightseeing tour

3 months free online-counseling and life-coaching support.

Contact us for our latest counseling retreat special offers.

During your counseling retreat you will work with one of our highly qualified and experienced practitioners, most of which have 20 or 30 years of experience helping people make and sustain change. We guarantee that whatever dilemma, problem or situation you are facing we will help you resolve it, make the changes that you want to make and keep them changed.

All of our counseling retreat guests have gone onto lead the lives they really want, and do the things they have always dreamed of. Read previous guests messages in our “Guest Book”.

We are confident that our unique counseling retreat will be able to help you. If you are unsure why not have a free counseling mini session online to help you decide. Book yours today, just contact us on info@thelifechangepeople.com to arrange a convenient time.

If you are a women traveller or travelling alone check out our counseling retreat special offers; Solo Traveller and Womens Holidays on our Special Offers page. These offers were designed to take the stress out of solo travel and make a counseling retreat with us a completely relaxed process.

Whatever is prompting you to consider a counseling retreat; whether it be a specific issue or a general mid-life crisis we will be able to provide you with a tailor made itinerary that suits your every preference. Whether you prefer to be in the middle of things, close to markets, bazaars and restaurants, or away from it all in a mountain side villa retreat resort, we will be able to organise it for you. If you are working to a budget just let us know and we will put together the best counseling retreat to suit you.

Our unique tropical location enables us to offer other complimentary activities that ensure you get the most out of your stay with us. Recent counseling retreat guests have enjoyed world class spa and wellness treatments at our Spa Resort, elephant trekking through the mountains, food tasting tours, market and shopping trips, visiting nearby orchid farms, private yoga classes and even flying a plane! Whatever interests you, just let us know and we will work it into your own counseling retreat itinerary. If you have time left over at the end of your stay we can arrange onward direct flights down to either Samui or Phuket to spend time relaxing on a beach.

We look forward to welcoming you to this magical part of Thailand and helping you sort out your problems on our counseling retreat.

Contact us at info@thelifechangepeople.com for information on all our services including; Babymoon, Womens Holidays, Solo Travel, Counseling Retreat, counselling, online-counselling, life-coaching and therapy services.

Counselling and Life Coaching Retreats 

Alot of people find that Counselling and Life Coaching has one big draw-back. It doesn’t last for long. As soon as the hour is up you are back on a busy uncaring street. That’s why lots of people feel that Counselling or Life Coaching can feel as though you are taking two steps forward and one step back. Just when you are beginning to make that breakthrough you look at the clock and realise that time is up. With our retreat that doesn’t happen.

We offer a concentrated amount of time, where you can get away from all the day to day stresses, and really get to grips with your problems and difficulties and sort your life out all in one go. We use advanced Clinical Personality Profiling and the latest evidence based approaches to accelerate the natural processes of change. 

Counselling  and Life Coaching Retreats in Thailand

Essential to a good retreat is the setting. It really is very important to provide a setting that is tranquil and comfortable where you can really feel refreshed and relaxed, and be able to think clearly far away from the worries and pressures of everyday life. We looked long and hard, turning down numerous locations that lacked the beautiful weather, the sun and the warmth, that we think makes for a truly special experience.

The beautiful, stunning location of Northern Thailand offered us everything we had been looking for; breathtaking mountain scenery, a peaceful and tranquil atmosphere, unsurpassed hospitality, a rich cultural history with a perfect year round climate and clean mountain air. We had found the perfect location. 

 A Counselling or Life Coaching Retreat In Thailand run by The Life Change People.

What makes our retreat special?

Many retreats use standard Counselling or Life Coaching approaches. The approach used by The Life Change People is different. We use a tried and tested, evidence based approach developed from recent advances in motivational psychology that aims to speed up natural change processes. This is an approach specifically designed to be used within relatively short spaces of time and achieve the same results. A recent guest worked out that our week long Life Change Retreat is roughly equivalent to 6 months of standard Counselling and Life Coaching, at a fraction of the price.

If that is all not enough, to ensure that the changes that you want to make with us, and the problems that you want to resolve stay changed we offer 3 months continued online-counselling support after you return home.

Our retreat guests often make use of direct flights down to Phuket and Samui to combine their stay with some time relaxing on a beach. We often help to arrange this and can recommend locations and hotels to suit all budgets.

We look forward to welcoming you with us here in Thailand.

Call our office direct or email us at info@thelifechangepeople.com to find out latest prices, and other range of therapeutic holidays and services including Womens Holidays, Solo Traveller Holidays, Counseling Retreat, Mind and Body Health Retreat Holidays, Spa and Wellness Holidays and Babymoon.

Mid-Life Crisis

How we resolve your problems.

When you are in the middle of a mid-life crisis everything looks hopeless, because you feel hopeless. It becomes a vicious circle. It also tends to intensify with time and the more you think about it. Often the only ways out, if any, seem equally hopeless, and everything seems very stuck.

We have put together a special mid-life crisis counseling retreat program, designed specifically to overcome these problems and get you towards achieving the life you really want. Over the past 20 years we have helped literally thousands of people out of mid-life crisis and towards achieving their dreams.

Amongst our guests this year Sarah is now running her own wild life sanctuary in Africa, Gemma is living her dream and has become a portrait artist and Michael is running a successful sculpture business. All overcoming, seemingly immovable mid-life crisis.

“It really did feel like I had no way out, it felt overwhelming, it didn’t so much feel like a mid life crisis but a mid life disaster” Emma, Baan Deva Retreat Hotel.

We recognize that often the only way to achieve real perspective on your life is to move outside it, which is why coming out to our counseling retreat in Thailand works so very well. It provides that much needed distance to examine your life and begin making important changes.

We base our mid-life crisis counseling retreat program in a small selection of beautiful partner boutique hotels. Some are five star city oasis hotels, nestling in quiet locations within the old town of Chiang Mai, close to shops, markets and restaurants. Others are up in the mountains offering complete tranquillity, surrounded by breathtaking scenery and beautiful wild life. Because of our range of locations we can offer our mid-life crisis counseling retreat to suit all tastes and budgets. 

If distance is all that is required to resolve a mid life crisis a good foreign holiday should work equally well, but they are never enough. Our therapeutic program has been put together with over 100 years combined experience at the highest levels. It is a unique combination of counseling techniques based upon recent advances in motivational psychology, personality profiling, life-coaching, cognitive behavioural therapy and 3 months free online-counseling and life-coaching support after you return home.

Whilst with us you work everyday with your own life change therapist, examining your mid-life crisis and removing barriers to change. These sessions are complimented by a series of carefully chosen activities and excursions. Recent guests have enjoyed world class spa and wellness treatments, elephant trekking through the mountains, food tasting tours, shopping trips to markets and bazaars, private yoga classes and tours of mountainside orchid farms. We are able to tailor make your itinerary to include things that you really enjoy. Let us know your preferences and we will do the rest.

For a complete range of all our services including; Babymoon, Womens Holiday, Solo Travel Holiday, Counseling Retreat, Online-counseling, Wellness Holidays, Spa Holidays, counselling, life-coaching and therapy services, please contact us at info@thelifechangepeople.com